Phoems are in some part phony. In terms of process - the identification of this tranche of work as transcriptions (even if edited) of taped recordings - this one does not disappoint as I wrote it on paper. I recall I did so more or less straight up, following the aphroism of Chagyam Trungpa via Allen Ginsberg, "First take best take." I have sometimes doubted the truth of this dictum: Or it may be said that it takes many takes to get to the first take. My experience, however, is this applies to the learning of a craft; once internalized, one has immediate access to originality. It becomes a matter, as O'Hara writes, of going "on your nerve" (Olson too). My learning to work with speech followed this pattern, and relative to writing, it had to do more with speed and so a heightened set of trust parameters. Beyond this lies performance, which at a certain point is what happens (chance/cadence). If the trust and nerve are there, it will well.